Course Details
Foundation Engineering (V)
Academic Year 2025/26
BFA011 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1.-2. Introduction. Shallow footings for water and other structures.
- 3.-4. Deep foundations – basic elements. Caissons, open caissons, piles and micropiles.
- 5.-6. Classical injection in water structures. Water pressure tests.
- 7.-8. Jet grouting – technology, jet grouting use.
- 9.-10. Diaphragm walls – construction method and utilization. Encapsulation. Protection of waste dumps.
- 11.-12. Foundation pits and their timbering. Cofferdams – types and using.
- 13. Static design of both foundation pit timbering and coffers. Hydraulic stability of coffers.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. Earth pressures.
- 2. Shallow foundations. 1st a 2nd limit states.
- 3. Programme Geo 5.
- 4. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 1st limit state.
- 5. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 2nd limit state.
- 6. Design of gravity wall.
- 7. Programme Geo 5.
- 8. The design of freestanding sheeting wall.
- 9. The design of anchored sheeting wall.
- 10. Programme Geo 5.
- 11. Dewatering of foundation pit.
- 12. Individual consultations.
- 13. Credit.